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Sir Mick Jagger parties with Jade and daughters in London's Automat nightclub By Tom Chivers Last Updated: 11:24AM BST 10/05/2008 Three generations of Jaggers were out partying this week in a trendy London nightspot.Amba, Jade and Assisi Jagger at the Automat nightclub Dominic O'Neill Amba Jagger at Automat Mick, daughter Jade and granddaughters Amba and Assisi descended upon the Automat club, in Mayfair, to celebrate the launch of an ice-pick. The children, aged 12 and 15 respectively, courted controversy by wearing outfits more suited to adults. Amba wore a black-and-white patterned mini-dress, while her sister wore a flimsy black satin...

If George Bush and Tony Blair had presided as CEOs over deceptive and fraudulent practices in the City comparable to those they are guilty of with regard to Iraq, they would have been immediately and unceremoniously sacked. Five years on, the legacy of the Iraq war is now clear. Let us look at the balance sheet. Based on an extrapolation from the figures of the Lancet study, more than 1 million Iraqi civilians have died - a figure that might even eclipse the genocide in Rwanda.

Jagger to be booted from home From correspondents in New York October 19, 2007 08:59am Article from: Reuters A NEW York appeals court has ruled that a landlord can evict Bianca Jagger from her Park Avenue apartment because of her immigration status. The former wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger has lived in the rent-stabilised apartment for 20 years and argued that it was her primary residence and her landlord should be barred from evicting her. A British citizen who was born in Nicaragua, Jagger is in the United States on a B-2 tourist visa. Her lawyer Ryan Goldstein had...

Jagger payout is in divorce top 10 Last Updated: 1:47am BST 14/04/2007 Jerry Hall has made the Top 10 in the Forbes magazine list of the most expensive celebrity divorces. Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall: the 10th priciest celebrity divorce She was awarded between £7.5 million and £12.5 million when she filed for divorce from Mick Jagger, after he fathered a Brazilian model's child. The Rolling Stone, worth an estimated £162.5 million at the time according to the magazine, had challenged the legality of their Balinese wedding. Despite the size of the settlement, Miss Hall only managed tenth place. Top...

It's only censorship, but they like it-------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 10, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Mentioning "censorship" to artists is like saying "milk" to the lactose intolerant, but sometimes you can get them to sneak a sip provided it's to stave off osteoporosis and/or make headlines. It seems like only yesterday that Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones were hesitant, but agreed to, have their Super Bowl halftime show very briefly censored, with the microphone volume being lowered at the appropriate lyrical moment during two songs. The networks, still reeling from Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" a couple years...

Shanghai -- When the Rolling Stones take to their first mainland China stage Saturday, their audience isn't likely to look much different than one in San Francisco. Rather than to a sea of Chinese faces, the band will play to an international crowd. A unique mix of censorship, daunting bureaucracy and an immature commercial market make China -- a potentially lucrative place to tap a new, hip audience -- into something of a wasteland when it comes to the type of big concerts that generate viewers on pay-per-view in the United States. The Western rock and pop acts popular among...

It all started as a rather pleasant, if not exciting evening. We had heard a speech from British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw once again trying to "explain" the evil of Islamofascim in pseudo-theological, rather than political, terms. But that had been compensated for with a poem from the great mystic poet Roumi recited by Iranian journalist Nazanin Ansari. Apart from the usual contingent of "the great and the good" most of the 800 or so people present were media people and their friends, come to cheer or boo as the Foreign Press Association in London distributed its annual prizes. The...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - The Rev. Jesse Jackson and celebrity activist Bianca Jagger were set to visit death row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams on Monday, according to the inmate's spokeswoman. Jackson and Jagger, a former model once married to rock legend Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, will visit Williams before holding a news conference outside the gates of San Quentin State Prison, Barbara Becnel said. Williams' execution is set for Dec. 13. He was convicted in 1979 of killing four people during two Los Angeles robberies. While on death row, he's received international acclaim for an array of peace...

Fox News is reporting that the latest album by the Rolling Stones, "A Bigger Bang," is "less than a month old, [and] already out of the Top 50.""A Bigger Bang" is the album that features "Sweet Neo-Con," a rare poltical song from the band, and one that attacks President Bush and Condoleezza Rice as "full of sh-t."Fox also reports that the latest album by frequent Bush critic Barbra Streisand, "Guilty Pleasures," "has caused little excitement even among her rabid fans."Both the Stones and Streisand are acts that appeal to the adult segment of the music buying public. Approximately half that...

TEHRAN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Back in 1968 Mick Jagger had plenty of "Sympathy for the Devil", but his first wife Bianca is far more critical of "The Great Satan" and fears U.S. unwillingness to talk to Iran could lead to conflict. Rights campaigner Jagger, the Council of Europe's goodwill ambassador, has travelled to Iran with a group called "U.S. Academics for Peace", seeking to ensure the Islamic Republic does not become the next Iraq. The group argues the mudslinging rhetoric branding the United States as "The Great Satan" and Iran as part of the "axis of evil" is one...

Sir Mick Jagger claimed police tried to plant "white powder" on him during a drugs bust at his Chelsea home in May 1969. The "fit me up" claim is contained in documents just released at The National Archives. Mick got nicked - and no satisfaction with his claim. Scotland Yard dismissed it. The Yard said that the Rolling Stones singer was associated with "the world of users of dangerous drugs". Which proves that you really can't always get what you want. See the original crime reports ......brown sugar with that?

...Richard Nixon, amid a similar low ebb of popularity with Vietnam, gave a famous speech in 1969. This was the year after the Tet offensive, which caused Walter Cronkite's famous Hagel-like throwing in of the towel. In that speech Nixon described a "great silent majority" in America. The idea, of course, was that the daily media attention commanded by the antiwar movement was missing a class of Americans who sat home seething at the behavior of the protesters. Today, because of the Internet, no one has to seethe in silence, as wired activists in both parties proved in 2004's high-tech...

GERMANY'S conservatives said today they would continue to play the Rolling Stones song Angie on their leader Angela Merkel's campaign trail despite complaints from the band and requests from a record company to stop. "The song will be played tonight" at a rally in Hamburg, said a spokeswoman for Ms Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) which is tipped to win September elections, paving the way for her to become Germany's first woman chancellor. She said that the party had been assured by the German music copyright group GEMA that they were allowed to use the Stones' 1973 hit. The European...

Tickets go on sale Saturday for the Rolling Stones' Omaha concert. Prices range from $62 to $352. How much would you pay to see the Stones? · I'd pay any price. 198 · I'd try for the mid-range. 432 · I'd go for the "cheap" seats. 840 · You'd have to pay ME to go. 2420 · I have no opinion. 217 Your browser must support cookies and must have cookies enabled in order for you to vote

``George Bush doesn't listen to us,'' Keith Richards said. But that's not the only reason the Rolling Stones, who open their world tour at Fenway Park today, won't be getting an invitation to the White House anytime soon. The Brit rockers' new CD, ``A Bigger Bang,'' comes out Sept. 6, but Matt Drudge and other right-wing media types are already foaming at the mouth after discovering the lyrics to one of its songs, ``Sweet Neo Con,'' a scarcely disguised savaging of the commander in chief.

The normally apolitical Rolling Stones have no sympathy for President Bush. In the refrain of the 13th track on their upcoming album, frontman Mick Jagger belts out the refrain: "How come you’re so wrong, my sweet neo-con?" "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite," the verse goes. "You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think you are full of s--! Fans have been buzzing about the tune for months, with many up in arms over rumors that Virgin Records cut it from the final disc, fearing America’s conservative-owned radio networks and big box chain stores would refuse...

NEW YORK — The Rolling Stones' upcoming album contains a song seemingly critical of President Bush (search), but Mick Jagger denies it's directed at him, according to the syndicated TV show "Extra." "It is not really aimed at anyone," Jagger said on the entertainment-news show's Wednesday edition. "It's not aimed, personally aimed, at President Bush. It wouldn't be called 'Sweet Neo Con' if it was."

Mick Jagger has insisted that a song on the new Rolling Stones album called Sweet Neo Con is not about US President George Bush. The rocker admitted the song is critical of some of the Bush administration's policies, but pointed out that it does not mention the President directly. But the military contractor Halliburton, which used to be run by Vice President Dick Cheney and has been awarded key Iraq contracts, does come in for criticism. "It's not really aimed at anyone," Jagger told US television show Extra. "It's not aimed, personally aimed, at President Bush. It wouldn't be called...

President Bush's controversial nominee for ambassador to the Netherlands, Ameriquest Capital founder Roland Arnall, might be regretting his company's high-profile sponsorship of the Rolling Stones' U.S. concert tour. Arnall's mortgage company is spending millions of dollars to tout the Stones tour and Ameriquest's sweepstakes for travel, lodging and concert seats - never mind that Mick Jagger is releasing a tune apparently attacking Arnall's patrons in the Bush administration. The lyrics of "Sweet Neo Con" include such broadsides as: "Democracy's our style/ Unless you are against us/ Then it's prison without trial./ But one thing that is certain/ Life is good...

The Rolling Stones' upcoming album contains a song seemingly critical of President Bush, but Mick Jagger denies it's directed at him, according to the syndicated TV show "Extra." "It is not really aimed at anyone," Jagger said on the entertainment-news show's Wednesday edition. "It's not aimed, personally aimed, at President Bush. It wouldn't be called 'Sweet Neo Con' if it was." The song is from the new album, "A Bigger Bang," set for release Sept. 6. There is no mention of Bush or Iraq. But it does refer to military contractor Halliburton, which was formerly run by Vice President Cheney...

The Rolling Stones’ music has been downright awful since Tattoo You (1981) – but Mick Jagger’s big lips keep on yammering. Mick, the great arrogant hypocrite, with a net worth of $500,000,000.00, and 7 children he couldn’t give a damn about, is now lecturing American conservatives about morality: The Rolling Stones, not exactly a band at the forefront of rock 'n' roll activism, are taking aim at the American right with a new song on their upcoming album, according to Newsweek magazine. The track, "Sweet Neo Con," boasts the line, "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/You...

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Won't "Start Me Up": Tell the NFL to Drop the Rolling Stones By Debbie Schlussel As I first reported here, weeks ago (later reported on Drudge--yesterday), the Rolling Stones have a song on their new album, entitled "Sweet Neo-con," which attacks President Bush, Christians, America, and the war in Iraq. That's bad enough. But now, the NFL plans to feature the Stones in their NFL Monday Night broadcasts, this season. As reported, yesterday, by my friend, Detroit Free Press rock critic Brian McCollum (the only conservative rock critic for a major American newspaper), the NFL plans a whole season joint...

Finally I have a vanity post worthy of Freepers... A friend of mine here in Germany is a music editor for a magazine. He is a true blue lifelong Rolling Stones fan (as well as a leftie) and has been to a Pre-Listening Session of the new Rolling Stones album today. Now this is exactly what he told me about it: "It sucks."

New York-WABC, August 10, 2005) — 'The Rolling Stones' are joining forces with ABC And the NFL to promote a new album "A Bang" and tour. Footage from the Stones Detroit show will air during the one hour pregame special before the "Patriots" face the "Raiders" on September 8th. The band's music will be featured in promos and during replays on "Monday night football" throughout the rest of the season.

The normally apolitical Rolling Stones have no sympathy for President Bush. In the refrain of the 13th track on their upcoming album, Mick Jagger belts out the refrain: "How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con?" "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite," the verse goes. "You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think you are full of s---! Fans have been buzzing about the tune, with many up in arms over rumors that Virgin Records cut it from the final disk, fearing America's conservative-owned radio networks and big-box chain stores would refuse to play or stock...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE AUG 09, 2003 08:02:25 ET XXXXX JAGGER ROCKS BUSH: 'HOW COME YOU'RE SO WRONG, MY SWEET NEO-CON' "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of sh*t!... How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con." Ready to drop in the coming weeks, a new Bush-bashing tune from the ROLLING STONES: "Sweet Neo Con." "It is direct," Mick Jagger says with a laugh to fresh editions of NEWSWEEK. "Keith [Roberts] said, 'It's not really metaphorical.' I think he's a bit worried because he...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Christopher Dodd, the very liberal Connecticut Democrat, wrote of his recent visit to Venezuela in a letter to the editor of The Washington Post. Hugo Chavez, the neo-Marxist military leader, was "democratically elected," Mr. Dodd notes; he urges the White House "to reconsider its failed approach to Venezuela." In just the same way, Dodd would welcome back Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his best friend in Haiti. Dodd is known in Washington as "the senator from accounting," a richly earned sobriquet for the legislation he initiated that would have protected the Arthur Andersen firm for its role in the Enron...

President Bush and Sen. John Kerry can be grateful that at least one British rock star is keeping his opinions to himself. Unlike Sting - who this week told a German newspaper that Kerry lacks humor but that he would "rather vote for a chimpanzee than Bush" - Mick Jagger believes in letting England's former colony sort out its own affairs. On Monday, when we ran into Jagger at the premiere of "Alfie" (he and Dave Stewart did the soundtrack), we asked if he'd been following the presidential race. "How can you avoid it?" laughed the Rolling Stone, who'd been...

MONTREAL (CP) - The re-election of George W. Bush as U.S. president would threaten world peace, the first wife of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger said Wednesday. "I think President Bush (news - web sites) is in my view, if I may say so, the most dangerous man in power today," Bianca Jagger told reporters after addressing the opening of the second global conference against the death penalty. "There is a threat not only for the people of the United States but if he is elected, I feel it would be a threat for the world and would unfortunately put...

LONDON - After months of uncertainty, Mick Jagger has managed to fit Queen Elizabeth II into his busy schedule. The Rolling Stones star said Tuesday that he will go to Buckingham Palace on Dec. 12 to accept his knighthood. After difficulties caused by his touring schedule, Jagger was initially slated to be knighted on Dec. 10, the same date as rugby star Jonny Wilkinson will be made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, or MBE. But Jagger did not want to distract attention away from the man who led England to the rugby World Cup title last...

If you were uncertain of the definition of "sexagenarian," you may have thought Mick Jagger's been one for ages. But, no, the legendary rock 'n' roll Lothario doesn't join the group's ranks until Saturday. When he turns 60. Let the International House of Pancakes discounts begin... Jagger and his Rolling Stones mates, including fellow sexagenarian Charlie Watts, will mark the occasion with a private, if paparazzi-stalked birthday bash somewhere in the capital of the Czech Republic. (The band's on a layover there, scheduled to play to 60,000 Sunday night at Letna Park.) Details of the Prague party are under wraps....

Jagger says first Stones songs were 'crap' October 13 2002 at 05:35PMMick and Keef: "Nobody has been scumbag rockers like us and lived to tell the tale." Photo: AP London - The first songs penned by Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richard were so sentimental they were ashamed of them, Jagger told BBC Radio in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday. "We couldn't write rock songs. We just wrote these crap ballads," he told Britain's Radio Five Live, in extracts of an interview that were released before Sunday's broadcast. The band's first five hits were all cover versions...